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System Properties Comparison Amazon SimpleDB vs. NSDb vs. SQream DB vs. Vertica vs. Warp 10

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NameAmazon SimpleDB  Xexclude from comparisonNSDb  Xexclude from comparisonSQream DB  Xexclude from comparisonVertica infoOpenText™ Vertica™  Xexclude from comparisonWarp 10  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionHosted simple database service by Amazon, with the data stored in the Amazon Cloud. infoThere is an unrelated product called SimpleDB developed by Edward ScioreScalable, High-performance Time Series DBMS designed for Real-time Analytics on top of Kubernetesa GPU-based, columnar RDBMS for big data analytics workloadsCloud or off-cloud analytical database and query engine for structured and semi-structured streaming and batch data. Machine learning platform with built-in algorithms, data preparation capabilities, and model evaluation and management via SQL or Python.TimeSeries DBMS specialized on timestamped geo data based on LevelDB or HBase
Primary database modelKey-value storeTime Series DBMSRelational DBMSRelational DBMS infoColumn orientedTime Series DBMS
Secondary database modelsSpatial DBMS
Time Series DBMS
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
Trend Chart
Score1.88
Rank#133  Overall
#23  Key-value stores
Score0.08
Rank#369  Overall
#40  Time Series DBMS
Score0.74
Rank#224  Overall
#103  Relational DBMS
Score10.06
Rank#42  Overall
#26  Relational DBMS
Score0.14
Rank#344  Overall
#32  Time Series DBMS
Websiteaws.amazon.com/­simpledbnsdb.iosqream.comwww.vertica.comwww.warp10.io
Technical documentationdocs.aws.amazon.com/­simpledbnsdb.io/­Architecturedocs.sqream.comvertica.com/­documentationwww.warp10.io/­content/­02_Getting_started
DeveloperAmazonSQream TechnologiesOpenText infopreviously Micro Focus and Hewlett PackardSenX
Initial release20072017201720052015
Current release2022.1.6, December 202212.0.3, January 2023
License infoCommercial or Open SourcecommercialOpen Source infoApache Version 2.0commercialcommercial infoLimited community edition freeOpen Source infoApache License 2.0
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud serviceyesnonono infoon-premises, all major clouds - Amazon AWS, Microsoft Azure, Google Cloud Platform and containersno
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Implementation languageJava, ScalaC++, CUDA, Haskell, Java, ScalaC++Java
Server operating systemshostedLinux
macOS
LinuxLinuxLinux
OS X
Windows
Data schemeschema-freeyesYes, but also semi-structure/unstructured data storage, and complex hierarchical data (like Parquet) stored and/or queried.schema-free
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or datenoyes: int, bigint, decimal, stringyes, ANSI Standard SQL Typesyesyes
XML support infoSome form of processing data in XML format, e.g. support for XML data structures, and/or support for XPath, XQuery or XSLT.nonono
Secondary indexesyes infoAll columns are indexed automaticallyall fields are automatically indexednoNo Indexes Required. Different internal optimization strategy, but same functionality included.no
SQL infoSupport of SQLnoSQL-like query languageyesFull 1999 standard plus machine learning, time series and geospatial. Over 650 functions.no
APIs and other access methodsRESTful HTTP APIgRPC
HTTP REST
WebSocket
.Net
JDBC
ODBC
ADO.NET
JDBC
Kafka Connector
ODBC
RESTful HTTP API
Spark Connector
vSQL infocharacter-based, interactive, front-end utility
HTTP API
Jupyter
WebSocket
Supported programming languages.Net
C
C++
Erlang
Java
PHP
Python
Ruby
Scala
Java
Scala
C++
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python
C#
C++
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Perl
PHP
Python
R
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresnonouser defined functions in Pythonyes, PostgreSQL PL/pgSQL, with minor differencesyes infoWarpScript
Triggersnonoyes, called Custom Alertsno
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesnone infoSharding must be implemented in the applicationShardinghorizontal and vertical partitioninghorizontal partitioning, hierarchical partitioningSharding infobased on HBase
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesyesnoneMulti-source replication infoOne, or more copies of data replicated across nodes, or object-store used for repository.selectable replication factor infobased on HBase
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnononono infoBi-directional Spark integrationno
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemEventual Consistency
Immediate Consistency infocan be specified for read operations
Eventual ConsistencyImmediate ConsistencyImmediate ConsistencyImmediate Consistency infobased on HBase
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynononoyesno
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of datano infoConcurrent data updates can be detected by the applicationnoACIDACIDno
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyesyesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesUsing Apache Luceneyesyesyes
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.noyes
User concepts infoAccess controlAccess rights for users and roles can be defined via the AWS Identity and Access Management (IAM)fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard; supports Kerberos, LDAP, Ident and hashMandatory use of cryptographic tokens, containing fine-grained authorizations
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Amazon SimpleDBNSDbSQream DBVertica infoOpenText™ Vertica™Warp 10
Specific characteristicsDeploy-anywhere database for large-scale analytical deployments. Deploy off-cloud,...
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Competitive advantagesFast, scalable, and capable of high concurrency. Separation of compute/storage leverages...
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Typical application scenariosCommunication and network analytics, Embedded analytics, Fraud monitoring and Risk...
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Key customersAbiba Systems, Adform, adMarketplace, AmeriPride, Anritsu, AOL, Avito, Auckland Transport,...
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Licensing and pricing modelsCost-based models and subscription-based models are both available. One license is...
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